Robotics suite

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A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and simulation. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for visual programming and creating and debugging robot applications. Developers can often interact with robots through web-based or visual interfaces.

One objective of a robotics suite is to support a variety of different robot platforms through a common programming interface. The key point about a robotics suite is that the same code will run either with a simulated robot or the corresponding real robot without modification.

Examples include Webots, Microsoft Robotics Studio, URBI, RUBIOS and tools supplied by the Player Project.

[edit] External links

• Microsoft MSDN robotics pages
• Webots - A Universal robot simulator and the official simulator for the e-puck and Aldebaran's Nao robots
• Player Project website
• Gostai URBI - A robotics suite with an active community (on a dedicated site: Urbiforge) and a Free Software SDK.